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24/05/2018 ZAD press group release
While the gendarmerie’s ongoing operation on the Zad had just committed a misconduct as tragic as predictable, the first reflex of both the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Interior was to whip out as soon as possible in the media the appropriate story in order to cover the facts, justify Maxime’s mutilation and try to counteract responses. Mr. Collomb or the attorney general worked on that immediately in the most affirmative way, without any (...)

Thursday 26 April 2018
The logic of the government’s revenge and repression of the ZAD after the abandonment of the [Notre Dame des Landes] airport project was extremely brutal, with the destruction of a large number of living spaces, farming areas, gardens and hedgerows. The police operation has left hundreds of people injured. It has also generated hundreds of actions of support and resistance, both in the local community and around the world.
The movement decided to make a gesture of (...)

Summarising a day of evictions at the ZAD, and a call-out for people to come to the ZAD to help stop the police operation.
The afternoon finished with the countryside of the ZAD asphyxiated by tear gas at the end of long hours of resistance to the destruction of living spaces and farms in the ZAD. At least 9 collective living sites have been destroyed, with their various special habitats broken up, their workshops smashed apart, their gardens trampled: These were the sites known as (...)

Communiqué - Statement by Promoters of Agricultural Activities and Other ZAD Residents Regarding the Expulsions Now in Progress
Tuesday 10 April 2018
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In the context of the press conference given this afternoon at 2 p.m. by some thirty persons representing the various agricultural, para-agricultural, craft, and cultural activities in the ZAD.
Communiqué - Statement by promoters of agricultural activities and other ZAD residents (...)

Saturday 14 April 2018
Communiqué - The ZAD and the Social Movement: 10,000 Demonstrators Kettled by Police in Nantes
This afternoon, a march organized by unions and students involving several thousand people began in the streets of Nantes in the early afternoon. 5,000 persons joined them at 4:30 p.m. to demonstrate against the expulsions in the ZAD and elsewhere. The march was highly diverse and included people of all ages. A banner at the head of the march read “SNCF, ZAD, Universités, (...)

Saturday 14 April 2018
The collective always rises again – Raising of a market / assembly hall at Le Gourbi in the ZAD on Sunday. This Sunday a wooden market building, sawn and joined by carpenters in the middle of the resistance to police/army attacks, will be set up at the locale called Le Gourbi. We invite you all to come on Sunday to support the raising of this new Le Gourbi and provide protection in the future. On Wednesday, Gourbi 4 was destroyed by backhoes following another (...)

Saturday 14 April 2018
Today, Saturday 14 April 2018, electricity had still not been turned back on and will remain cut off on orders of the Prefecture.
Certain homes outside of the Zone were given generators, but at least one of them stopped working after less than 24 hours.
This means that dozens of people and families have been left in the dark, some without heating and water because pumps needed to draw water cannot operate. Chicks died because of the lack of power to incubators, and (...)

Monday 16 April 2018
Mission accomplished - Large roof structure carried to Le Gourbi during the night by 300 people
In an absolutely Pharaonic collective effort, a structure weighing two tons and measuring 10 by 5 meters was carried to the Le Gourbi locale by 300 persons between 10:00 PM and the stroke of midnight. The goal of rebuilding one of the locales attacked last week was finally attained at the last minute. A highly determined group managed to carry the solid-wood edifice through (...)

“Nothing to see here. Please move along…” Communiqué from the National Journalists’ Union
Friday 13 April 2018 – Notre-Dame-des-Landes – Nothing to see here. Please move along… “200 Gendarmerie cameras on the ground,” Gérard Collomb proudly announced on LCI. The Minister of Interior calmly takes credit for having barred professional reporters in order to show the public “controlled” images of the expulsion of the Zadistes at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. “What we wanted is for viewers to have an objective (...)

REPORT OF WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING HERE THIS SUNDAY 15 APRIL. or THE MAGIC OF THE ZAD!
Despite the state of siege imposed by the government, a crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 people has succeeded, whatever the cost, in reaching different points of the ZAD this Sunday. This afternoon new groups are arriving all the time. Since this morning, the state has done everything possible to break this huge surge of solidarity: there are road blocks and checkpoints everywhere; police checkpoint policeman at (...)